Economy of Scale: when big is a waste.

Some short musings. I was thinking about why larger organizations tend to be less ‘agile’ or ‘nimble’ than smaller organizations. Even though larger organizations are typically broken into smaller and smaller groups. After thinking about it the phrase administrative abstraction came to mind. Here’s a quick break down of what it means to me:

Larges orgs: Typically high in price expensive but a low wait time once work starts. Getting authority can take time due to authorization, setup, or negotiations.

Med orgs: Reasonably effective, not to many levels of authority and red tape to work through when changes are requesteed. However, you may have to wait in line behind other client projects before your desire is worked on.

Small orgs: Usually very dedicated and willing but not enough resources internally to complete task to level of expertise req. to complete task.